Critical Thinking Exercises

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Please read each question below and type your response into each corresponding box. When you are finished, fill out your name, e-mail address, and instructor's e-mail at the bottom of this form, and click submit to send a copy to your instructor.

1: How might knowing more about nursing history impact your personal view of nursing?

2: How did the image of nursing in Nightingale's time impact nursing from the 1860sthrough the 1940s?

3: How would you define professionalism in your own words?

4: Review the ANA standards of practice and professional performance. Are you surprised by any of the standards? If so, why?

5: How might knowing the definition of nursing impact how you practice?

6: Why was nurse licensure vital to its profession?

7: What was the purpose of initiating the ADN program after World War II?

8: Why should nurses today study the history of nursing?

9: What nursing ideals were congruent with the teachings of the early Christian church?

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